Bad Day At WKRN

I couldn’t let recent events go by and not post a thought or two, especially when the end result is that a friend feels compelled to quit her job.  I have been upfront with her, and with my friends, that I objected to her linking to that poison in the first place.  I will not link to it from here.  I mean, I wouldn’t have linked to it even under the headline:  “Local moron shows his ass.”  I usually disagreed with her efforts to strike balance on NiT, you don’t see Liberal blogs show up on young Mr. Kleinheider’s Volunteer Voters aggregater.  And thats fine.  We all know what Brittney is about, but the topic was a sensitive one, and perhaps could have been handled differently.  We don’t have to agree that it (the link) was a mistake.  What I hope we agree about is that Brittney didn’t deserve the hate-fest that followed.

I really like and admire Aunt B, but I don’t see misogyny here.  Were there misogynistic comments made on various blogs about her?  Sure.  Some idiot called her “Kitten.” At the very least, I’d consider that condescending as all get out.  I think I would be hesitant, though, to imply that she was attacked because she is female.

It was blatantly unprofessional for Jesus General to turn his grief into a campaign to deprive Brittney of her livelihood..  He saw something that wasn’t there, and he was assured by people who know Brittney and read her daily that she made no endorsement of that post.  That should have been sufficient.  Instead, he and his readers unleashed on a person who, for the most part, shares their ideology, and is an important local voice for fairness and equal rights..  I’ve gone back and read all of the comments on NiT, and on TCP, and I have yet to read any diatribes against the pig who wrote the offensive post to begin with.  Seems lazy, and cowardly to me.  Just like him.

This will fuel a bunch of snickering posts about how we Leftists routinely turn on each other, which is laughable, since anytime young Mr. Kleinheider strays an inch or so from the prescribed Conservative path, he is set upon by almost every Right Wing watchdog in the State of Tennessee.

So, a friend is having a bad day, and compounding it by resigning.  Again, I don’t agree with the decision, but I don’t have to live her life, she does.  I hope she quickly finds a new path that will allow her to use her writing skills, and keep her bills paid too.  At least this situation has shown her that she has many friends, and that ain’t a bad thing, huh?